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Blake Worrell retweeted
Bill Maher and Coleman Hughes finish each other's sentences for 3 minutes straight as they lay out how teachers' unions wrecked public education.
The MS NOW host thought she could sit this one out quietly. Then Maher turned and lobbed a grenade right at her.
MAHER: "The reason why they don't know that socialism didn't work... is because NOBODY taught them in school."
HUGHES: "A lot of kids go to underperforming public schools, which is our euphemism for government-funded daycare centers with occasional school-like activities."
MAHER: "I knew they weren't learning anything, but like you said, it's like a daycare center and not a good one."
HUGHES: "And I think people on the left want to blame funding because that's the easy issue. But the truth is, this school was well funded. You know, it's 50,000 per pupil at this school. The problem isn't the funding. It's that you can't fire anyone bad."
MAHER: "Yes.... The problem is the union, the teachers union, is too powerful. We've seen it in results in states where the union is less powerful, the schools do better."
HUGHES: "I call it the chalkboard mafia."
MAHER: "The problem, the unions protect bad schools and bad teachers, and the party protects the union. It's almost impossible in a lot of these cities to fire a teacher. I mean literally like you could sell drugs to a kid and it's got to be two offenses before we get—"
HUGHES: "It wasn't that long ago that the unions lobbied for a law in New York State to ban even collecting data that you would use to assess which teachers are better than others. You can't even get the data. So obviously the teachers union serves the teachers, they don't serve the students, and if you're a Democrat or any American that's serious about public school reform, you have to challenge the teachers union, period."
MAHER: "And I think in this school, where they were learning nothing with no supervision and absentee principals and teachers, I think spending 50,000 dollars per year per student, it's not money. That's what you always hear from the left. 'Oh, it's underfunded.' It's not the funding. The funding isn't the issue."
HUGHES: "No, it hasn't been for a very long time."
MAHER: "I think this is the kind of thing I will NEVER hear on MS NOW."
ALI VITALI: "I think you hear a lot of perspectives on MS NOW."
MAHER: "I don't ever hear that one."
CONTEXT: Maher and Hughes aren't making this up. On the latest Nation's Report Card, high school seniors posted the lowest reading and math scores ever recorded on the test.
And getting rid of bad teachers is nearly impossible. Federal survey data shows the average school district dismissed just 0.2 tenured teachers for poor performance in a year. That's roughly 1 in 500.
Meanwhile, students do better long-term in states where unions have less power.
A 2019 study in the American Economic Journal found that boys who went to school in states that forced districts to bargain with teachers' unions went on to earn about $2,100 LESS per year as adults compared to boys in states without those laws.
If a business failed this badly, someone would get fired. As Hughes put it: "The teachers union serves the teachers; they don't serve the students."
Blake Worrell retweeted
there has never been a better time to pull out this image
Blake Worrell retweeted
“End tipping culture,” Europeans say but then your waiter takes FOREVER.
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Blake Worrell retweeted
Evil detests beauty because beauty is proof of a transcendental order, of objective Goodness and Truth.
To attack beauty is to wage war against the possibility of transcendence.
Beauty is a great affront to nihilism. It testifies to that which is greater than the individual, because to create a beautiful thing is to acknowledge that you are answerable to standards higher than your own. Beauty is often called a great evangelist for this reason.
This is why they outright destroy beauty or try to subvert your perception of it by promoting ugliness or triviality. Beauty is neither neutral nor trivial — your ability to discern the beautiful from the ugly is intimately connected to your capacity to recognize the divine.
Dietrich von Hildebrand once declared that "beauty is the archenemy of mediocrity." Why?
Beauty elevates a person toward truth, goodness, and the divine. The antitheses to beauty drag the soul down into nihilism and worship of the self.
Blake Worrell retweeted
For 143 years, the Hôtel de Ville stood at the heart of Limoges, France. It survived two world wars. On October 17, 2026, it was devastated by fire during civil unrest.
Built in 1883, its sculpted façade, mosaics, and clock tower expressed the pride of a city in its history and craftsmanship.
The people who built it are long gone. So are the generations who maintained it.
Those who destroyed it needed only a few hours.
Every generation inherits things it could never recreate alone.
What we choose to protect reveals how much we value those who came before us, and those who will come after.
ALT By Benjamin Smith - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
ALT Pediment. By Benjamin Smith - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0.
ALT Bell Tower. By Benjamin Smith - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
ALT The Hôtel de Ville burning down on 17 October 2026. By Wydiwye - Own work, CC0,
Blake Worrell retweeted
Chris Rock just nailed one of the biggest problems with wokeness.
Helping people who feel marginalized is good. He says so himself. The trouble starts when a good cause becomes an institution.
The first few witches were real. Then you open a witch office. Now there are salaries, budgets and pensions to justify, and the office needs a steady supply of witches to keep existing.
That’s the trap. Once a cause becomes a career, solving the problem means losing your job. So the problem never gets solved. It just keeps getting redefined.
A system built to find wrongdoing will keep finding it, whether it’s there or not.
Blake Worrell retweeted
These NYC apartments are standing empty, not because the owners don't want to rent them, but because rent stabilization laws prohibit them from charging enough to earn back the costs of necessary repairs.
My latest for @WSJFreeEx
I just found out that online #MegaMan fan communities call his standard mega buster weapon the “lemon shooter” and now I can’t unsee it.
Blake Worrell retweeted
If I had known families can be like this—not even to have it but to simply know it exists and thus is possible in the real world—I don’t think the antinatalists would have been able to have a hold on me up to the end of my 20s.
I think people also vastly underestimate the power of words and just how much they can heal. I remember an outburst by a conservative man at ARC 2025 where he gave a short passionate romantic speech in private about how it’s a joy to treat women—and now singular; his wife—well. And he mentioned many beautiful examples of what he meant by that. He says he would never say it this vividly or at all publicly, but if you think like this, you should. If you have a vision of just how high it’s realistic to aim, or to wait and search for, so much unnecessary heartbreak and worse could be avoided.
